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Austria

Law enforcement services in Austria are provided by the Directorate General for Public Security, a department of the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

Nine regional police directorates report directly to the Federal Interior Ministry, providing police services through local, city or district commands. With a strength of 27,500 men and women serving in the country’s nine states, the force is in charge of nearly 900 police stations and more than 80 specialized stations (for example, dog handlers, traffic police, and so on).

Nine regional police directorates:

Burgenland;

Carinthia;

Lower Austria;

Salzburg;

Styria;

Tyrol;

Upper Austria;

Vienna;

Voralberg.

Directorate-General for Public Security:

Austrian Criminal Intelligence Service (Bundeskriminalamt);

Federal Bureau for State Protection and Counter Terrorism;

Operations and Crisis Coordination Centre;

Special Operations Unit Cobra;

Special Operations Unit Surveillance;

Police Air Support;

Operational Affairs;

Immigration Police and Border Control;

Federal Police (Bundespolizei).

INTERPOL Vienna

The National Central Bureau (NCB) for Austria is part of the Austrian Criminal Intelligence Service (CIS) at the Federal Ministry of the Interior. INTERPOL Vienna police officers work at the following NCB crime desks:

VIENNA, Austria – Ensuring asset recovery investigators have the tools and global support to carry out transnational investigations was the focus of the 5th Global Focal Point Conference on Asset Recovery in Vienna.More than 170 anti-corruption investigators and prosecutors from 79 countries attended the two-day (9 and 10 September) meeting, organized by...

LAXENBURG, Austria – INTERPOL has held its first integrity in sport training course which focuses exclusively on law enforcement officers who investigate cases of match-fixing and illegal betting.&nbsp;Organized by INTERPOL’s Integrity in Sport unit with the support of the Austrian Ministry of Interior and the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA),...

LYON, France – The suspected mastermind behind a global car smuggling ring, estimated to have trafficked luxury and sports vehicles worth around EUR 6 million since 2009, has been arrested following an INTERPOL-coordinated operation.The Russian national was taken into custody in Venice, Italy following INTERPOL’s Operation Eastbound which coordinated the...

LYON, France ‒ The conviction in the US of an Afghan national wanted internationally for a series of rapes after a DNA match made by INTERPOL led to the suspect’s arrest in Austria in 2010 has been hailed by INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble as an example of what can be achieved through international police cooperation.Ali Achekzai, aged 33, who...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – An INTERPOL operation targeting 207 internationally-wanted fugitives wanted for serious crimes including murder, kidnapping, organized crime and child sexual abuse believed to be hiding in South America has led to arrests across the continent and new investigative leads established for almost a quarter.Investigative leads develop...

VIENNA, Austria – INTERPOL and the World Bank-UNODC StAR (Stolen Asset Recovery) anti-corruption initiative, in co-operation with the U.S. Department of State, are holding the first StAR-INTERPOL Asset Recovery Focal Points meeting in Vienna, Austria, from 14 to 15 December. The event will include investigators, prosecutors and experts in the field of ass...

VIENNA, Austria – A visit by INTERPOL President Khoo Boon Hui provided an opportunity for the world police body and Austria to review their collaborative activities against transnational crime. It also highlighted the role of international partnerships and co-operation in forging regional security.Mr Khoo’s visit (29 May – 1 June) ended with the INTERPOL...

A transnational operation co-ordinated by INTERPOL targeting wildlife crime across southern Africa has resulted in the location and closure of an illegal ivory factory, the seizure of nearly 400 kilos of ivory and rhino horn with a market value of more than one million dollars, as well as the arrest of 41 people.The two-day operation (13-14 May), codename...

LYON, France – A DNA match made by INTERPOL has led to the arrest of an Afghan national in Austria suspected of a series of rapes in the US and in Europe.In December 2009, US authorities sent a DNA profile linked to a number of violent sex attacks in California between 2002 and 2004 to INTERPOL’s General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France. INTERPOL’...

An international week of action targeting the online sale of counterfeit and illicit medicines has resulted in a series of arrests and the seizure of thousands of potentially harmful medical products.In response to an ever-increasing number of websites supplying dangerous and illegal medicines, Operation Pangea II involving 24 countries was co-ordinated b...

LYON, France – A fugitive Kazakh national wanted in his country for murder and subject of an INTERPOL Red Notice, or international wanted persons’ notice, has been arrested in Austria following an international operation across seven countries co-ordinated via INTERPOL.Asanali Zhekebayev, aged 33, who is wanted in Kazakhstan following his conviction there...

France – Visitors to the Euro 2008 football championships will have their passports checked against INTERPOL’s global database of Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) database following Austria’s expansion of access to law enforcement officers throughout the country.The move follows close co-operation between the Austrian Ministry of the Interior and t...